The Cut<\/a>, Meghan discussed how harassment from British tabloids led her and Harry to leave the U.K. in the first place. As working royals, they had wanted the option to make their own money so their lives would no longer be taxpayer-funded and thus open to tabloid attacks \u201cunder the guise of public interest,\u201d she explained. If they paid their own way, \u201cthen maybe all the noise would stop.\u201d<\/p>\nThe couple had been willing to relocate to another Commonwealth country to do this. \u201cAnything to just\u2026because just by existing, we were upsetting the dynamic of the hierarchy,\u201d she said. \u201cSo we go, \u2018Okay, fine, let\u2019s get out of here. Happy to.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The royal family rejected their half-in, half-out approach to royal work, leading the couple to step back from their senior working royal roles completely and move to the U.S. in 2020.<\/p>\n
A source close to Meghan remains concerned about how she\u2019ll fare in Britain this fall. \u201cMy biggest concern is the level of media attention she\u2019ll face in the U.K.,\u201d the insider told People. \u201cI\u2019m worried for her.\u201d<\/p>\n
An ally added that Meghan, Harry, and their children will be private citizens this time, and the Duchess of Sussex\u2019s network is better prepared and \u201cstronger now than it ever was to protect her\u2014to protect them.\u201d<\/p>\n
The move isn\u2019t permanent, either, multiple sources stressed, describing the couple\u2019s plans as fluid. \u201cIt\u2019s not necessarily a forever thing,\u201d one insider said.<\/p>\n
They have not bought property in the U.K. and will retain their Montecito home.<\/p>\n
Security may also influence the duration of their move, sources said, noting that the family does not have police protection in the U.K., and private security cannot carry firearms there. The couple has armed security in the U.S.<\/p>\n
The family is set to return to the U.K. in late August before their children begin school in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"3 min read THE RUNDOWN Sources spoke more about Meghan Markle and Prince Harry\u2019s decision to move back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1169300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[7708],"tags":[1380,317296,1331,258961,1381,225285,5105,7710,519,448,317295,291041,231053],"class_list":["post-1169299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-royals","tag-content-type-news","tag-contentid-04100526-ca2f-41cc-a85d-bb79518187b1","tag-displaytype-standard-article","tag-issyndicated-false","tag-locale-us","tag-read_time-3","tag-royal","tag-royal-families","tag-royal-family","tag-royals","tag-shorttitle-why-meghan-markle-agreed-to-move-back-to-the-u-k","tag-sponsored-false","tag-subsection-celebrity-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/117158551844331842","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1169299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1169300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1169299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1169299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1169299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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